• Dr Vaishali Billa

From time to time discrimination in the workplace rears its ugly head, regardless of the enormous efforts of the society to be a fairer and equal place for the marginalised. The innuendo and witty put-downs are still common in the workplace. Workplace discrimination is often associated with harassment of males or females and an inmate part of society that is often neglected is transgender. One of the reasons for being the most disempowered groups in India is the discrimination faced by their community faces in their life. Even the Constitution of India provides them equal rights as any other citizen of India, which include the Right to Personal Liberty, Dignity, Freedom of Expression, Right to Education and Empowerment, and Right against Violence, discrimination and exploitation. The present research study is an attempt to put light on the discrimination faced by transgender in their working environment. The paper focuses on the hardships confronted by transgender while acquiring jobs, disclosure of their identity at their workplace, and types of harassment faced at the workplace due to their Gender identity. The study also tries to make out whether any support is received by the transgender from fellow employees and upper management. To reach the results, a survey study will be done. The primary data shall be collected through face-to-face and telephonic interviews as a tool in a survey. The data collection will be done from transgender around Delhi NCR between the ages of 18 and 55 years using non-probability sampling, via purposive and snowball sampling techniques. The sample size will be 25 and the participation will be voluntary and unpaid. The data collected then will be interpreted and presented using the percentile method along with graphs. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques will be applied to the present research study. The data collected and analysed would help in drawing conclusions on the topic. The inferences would be relevant for understanding the workplace discrimination experienced by transgenders.

Gender, Identity, Transgender, Workplace, Discrimination.

"Gender Identity and Workplace Discrimination: A Study of Transgender Issues", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no.g352-g358, December-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212654.pdf

"Gender Identity and Workplace Discrimination: A Study of Transgender Issues", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no. ppg352-g358, December-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212654.pdf